Sydney’s Navigate Startup House has signed a memorandum of understanding with regional tech accelerator Propel, under which they will work together to encourage tech entrepreneurship in Cape Breton.

The two groups issued a statement saying they would collaborate to promote Propel programs that assist technology startups in Cape Breton.

“As Atlantic Canada's online accelerator, Propel takes

With its annual recurring revenue hitting $8 million, Halifax-based Proposify has closed a substantial funding round led by Toronto-based Canadian Business Growth Fund, or CBGF.

The parties declined to reveal the size of the round, though CBGF says it normally makes investments of between $3 million and $20 million. It was the first Atlantic Canadian investment by CBGF, a young $545 million fund

The Ocean Startup Project, an initiative helmed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, is accepting applications for a competition in which would-be entrepreneurs can compete to solve problems faced by oceans companies.

Donald Grant, the project’s executive director, said in an interview that his team hoped to develop a shortlist of 15 to 20 individuals or teams that will compete for ten $25,000 prizes

A new partnership between Atlantic Canadian governments, industry and post-secondary institutions is aiming to address tight labour supply in the biotech sector.

The federally backed Future Skills Centre has announced that it will invest $1.5 million to found the Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences. Its mandate is to use training programs to soften a tight labour market in

Having placed in the top five in the recent Techstars Startup Weekend international event, Sydney-based Rest Assured has also been accepted into Dalhousie University’s Ready2Launch program this summer.

Rest Assured, which is headed by Cape Breton University nursing students Michaela Moore and Kelsey Muller, won the national Startup Weekend competition called “Unite to Fight COVID-19” in April.

Halifax-based biotech company Adaptiiv Medical Technologies continues to grow and is hiring a Quality Manager, a posting that headlines our Jobs of the Week column.

Adaptiiv, which raised $3.4 million in equity financing earlier this year, has developed a system that 3D prints a bolus – a piece of plastic that is placed over the cancerous area in a patient undergoing radiation therapy. The

Venture capital investment in Atlantic Canada was already weakening before the COVID-19 crisis sent shockwaves through the economy, new data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association shows.

In fact, if you consider the funding announcements of the past two months, it’s a safe bet that Atlantic Canadian VC funding will be larger in the second quarter – when the shutdown was

Noted asthma and COPD expert Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald has joined the advisory board of St. John’s medtech startup BreatheSuite.

FitzGerald earned his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and is now listed as the director of the Centre for Heart and Lung Health at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, as well as a member of the University of British Columbia Faculty of

St. John’s telehealth startup Cyno has inked a deal with e-learning and professional development company Bluedrop Performance Learning, also of St. John's.

Cyno will allow Bluedrop employees to access medical services remotely, including via live video and text-based messaging.

Cyno was founded in 2017 to help physiotherapists service patients outside of clinic and office hours, and has since

A new app that monitors the health of elderly people has been launched by Miramichi, New Brunswick-based Unicare Home Health Care and sister company Uniclean Solutions.

The app, WellCheck, was developed by CEO and owner Lisa Williams to track important health information and to allow it to be shared with family members and healthcare providers. 

Williams was inspired to develop the app after